> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 4 11:27:39 2002
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Problems with HP 8150
> From: Jim Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:37:22 -0700 (MST)
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I'm having a big problem with my HP LaserJet 8150 (excuse me if I asked
> > about this already, but I'm going senile a touch early and don't see it in
> > my sent-mail, so here goes...). The thing lately is printing way way
> > slow... like a large delay, maybe 15 seconds, between print jobs. My 4100
> > next to it can print about 15 times faster, with no delays. It seems
> > especially poor with certain websites.
>
> Yeah we have a couple of those printers and they exhibit
> the same problem - amongst others.
>
> I phoned HP one time (and actually got to talk to someone who
> knows something) about a bug in the postscript interpreter.
> (having to do with setting fonts) The problem is that in those
> printers the postscript interpreter is an HP emulation of
> postscript III - or at least that's what he told me. (Ie. they
> didn't install the Adobe chip). I said to him "Oh that
> explains it". He asked what I meant by that and I told him,
> "well everybody knows that although HP makes superb hardware
> for some reason they can't write decent software to save their
> souls".
>
> What I think is happening is that the the memory is being
> fragmented and as a result it goes slower and slower. So far
> the only solution I know is to reboot the printer. What a
> bummer!!!
>
> What *I* would like to know is "is there a sequence I can send it
> that would cause it to reset" - equivalent to a reboot - that
> way we could get the driver to do it every once in a while and
> avoid this nasty.
Yes.
Unfortunately it also seems to do destructive things to settings.
You can, of course, get Ben Woodards infamous
"20 Ways to Kill Your HP Printer with SNMP"
and use that... sometimes the system really dies hard and you
have to do a powerup as well.
I also know of a sequence that you can send to it that will erase
the flash... I keep telling and telling HP about this but they
don't seem to care.
Patrick
>
> Trying to get anything from HP is like talking to a stone.
> Anyone else??
>
> Jim
Remember that the UNIX market is < 3 % of their sales.
Patrick ("Go away boy, you bother me. Step right up!
Step right up sir...") Powell
Larsen E. Whipsnade, AKA W. C. Fields, during his Carny
Barker scene where he is robbing the suckers blind...
Here are some more from http://scv.bu.edu/~aarondf/fortunes.html
(Yes, yes, I steal only the BEST ones...)
Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids Can't be All Bad.
-- W. C. Fields
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Don: I didn't know you had a cousin Penelope, Bill! Was she
pretty?
W. C.: Well, her face was so wrinkled it looked like seven miles of
bad road. She had so many gold teeth, Don, she use to have to
sleep with her head in a safe. She died in Bolivia.
Don: Oh Bill, it must be hard to lose a relative.
W. C.: It's almost impossible.
-- W. C. Fields, from "The Further Adventures of Larson
E. Whipsnade and other Tarradiddles"
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"Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!"
-- W. C. Fields
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
people.
-- W. C. Fields
-- W. C. Fields
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Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child -- if you parboil them
first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
-- W. C. Fields
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Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were
forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.
-- W. C. Fields, "My Little Chickadee"
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
-- W. C. Fields
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